Oral History Interview with Richard Crooks, July 24, 2003

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Interview with aircraft worker Richard Crooks. The interview includes Crooks' personal experiences of being employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
Date: July 24, 2003
Creator: Dixon, Tricia Taylor & Crooks, Richard
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Allan Shivers, 1966-1968 (open access)

Oral History Interviews with Allan Shivers, 1966-1968

Interview with Allan Shivers, a former state senator, lieutenant governor, and governor of Texas, 1950-57. The interview includes Shivers' observations on political career of Lyndon Johnson, the Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948, the Stevenson-Eisenhower presidential campaign of 1952, the Johnson presidential race of 1960, Texas Democratic politics from 1952-56, and the Fifty-third State Legislature. The interview also includes his opinion on the governor's role in state party organization, the state Democratic Convention of 1951, the gubernatorial election of 1954, veterans land board controversy from 1954-55, as well as insurance scandals of the mid-1950s and the lame-duck governor.
Date: July 24, 1969
Creator: Brewer, Thomas B.; Gantt, Fred & Shivers, Allan
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Diane B. Fitzgerald, July 24, 2014

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Transcript of an interview with Diane Fitzgerald, homesteader and simple life advocate. Fitzgerald shares concerning her childhood; early experiences with farming and outdoors; move to Maine; discovery of the Nearings; decision to homestead; and memories of the Nearings.
Date: July 24, 2014
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Fitzgerald, Diane B., 1940-
System: The UNT Digital Library